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Autonomous vehicles: increasing capacity, and jams?

John Sutton, JCS Consulting, Knutsford WA16
25 November 2016
 

Recent articles and letters in LTT have highlighted a number of contradictory impacts of automated vehicles (AV) should these ever be deployed on any scale. Sceptics have concerns that the vehicles will operate ‘conservatively’ to avoid collisions, thereby slowing general traffic, or trundle around ‘uber-style’ looking for passengers to pick-up and adding to local congestion. Advocates of the technology, meanwhile, focus on the presumed benefits such as increasing...

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